We should prima facie believe and appreciate our railway men regarding their claims so that they are motivated to do even much better. We expect that the 1.06 units have been achieved through eliminating wasteful uses of electricity. Hence I whole heartedly appreciated the fact in my first response i.e. Re# 1990370-1.
However, the fact cannot be denied that people have tendency to claim more credit than they actually deserve and many times succeed, as the people are not in a position to judge the fact due to lack of knowledge or lack of appropriate data.
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3 phase locos, a huge amount had already been invested with expectation of savings through lower power consumptions. Huge amount was invested in procurement and technology transfer agreement of 3 phase loco based on the justification that substantial savings shall be reaped through use of the loco in regenerative mode of electric power during braking/deceleration of train. (other indirect benefits like reduced maintenance, higher speed etc are also there). So it is a part of SOP of 3 phase loco to regenerate whenever the train is decelerating.
If the saving observed is due to introduction of more number of 3 phase loco over the period of time as suggested in the post Re# 1990370-3, then it is not fair to say pilots have saved 1.06 crore units i.e. 5.13 crore Rs. They certainly deserve credit for adopting the loco with new electricity saving 3 phase regenerative technology. If they have saved more electricity than the expected electricity saving (due to 3 phase loco) as per Standard operating practices for the given volume of traffic/ conditions, they deserve a big pat, and if they saved lesser then the expected, they need to be trained to achieve the desired level of savings in future. We must never be complacent with our sub-optimal achievements and always try to raise our bars higher and higher, then only we can achieve the standard benchmarks of excellence.
Running special caimpaign and making & distributing energy booklets for energy saving is a commendable job and show strong intention & efforts of Rly management to save electricity.